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By Melanie Curry

8:19 AM PDT on August 30, 2019

Bill to increase incentives for electric cars sidesteps a chance to discourage gas fueled vehicles (Planetizen)
Uber/Lyft, losing battle over AB5/employee definition, threaten a ballot measure (Politico, LA Times, Sacramento Bee)
San Francisco redesigns dangerous intersections after fatalities (SF Chronicle)
PPIC takes a gander at likely California voters (Capitol Weekly)
How Trump’s trade tariffs – taking effect today – will affect you (Sacramento Bee)
The terrifying legacy of David Koch (CityWatchLA)
The Urban Mobility Report is widely cited for congestion numbers, but it has fatal shortcomings (Planetizen)
Watch Burning Man’s Black Rock City – and traffic – grow via satellite (Curbed)
CARB to consider tropical forest offsets to help preserve Amazon rainforest (Mercury News)
But carbon offsets have some major drawbacks (GreenTech)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

Melanie Curry

Today's Headlines

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